Lead Product Designer, International Expansion

Working with our research team to design and launch products that are in line with market specific trends, cultures and values.
Youll lead design for a product area. This includes driving the future vision of this area, making sure it compliments a cohesive overall Monzo experience, and delivering on incremental steps to help the team head in this direction.
Youll be embedded in a cross-functional product squad. Youll be responsible for all design artefacts produced; from initial discovery and user journey mapping through to the execution of final UI design details.
Youll deeply understand the customers youre designing for. Whether its joining user research sessions, learning from previous insights, reading data reports or running your own lightweight research and analysis, youll strive to understand the what, why and how of the problems youre solving for to ensure we dont just ship the thing right, but we ship the right thing.
Youll collaborate regularly using strong communication, documentation and facilitation skills. Youll work closely with PMs, Engineers, Data scientists, User researchers and writers to make sure your team isnt just shipping great designs, but they are deeply involved throughout the design process.
Youll execute (and advocate for) polished, intuitive and accessible user experiences. Youre pragmatic and able to balance the ideal experience with knowing where and when to make scoping trade-offs based on technical constraints, experimentation strategy or business risk.
Youll help raise the bar for design at Monzo. Were a team where every designer plays a critical role in improving our community of practicewhether thats through improving our craft skills to leading rituals to giving great feedback.
Youll regularly work with our VP of Design and product leadership. This is to help make sure long-term strategy, business goals and experience quality are all in alignment and that there are healthy opportunities for visibility and feedback., Initial call (30 minutes). A video chat with Robert who leads hiring for international expansion. This focuses on general suitability and fit for Monzo.
Portfolio Walk-through (45 minutes+). We'll ask you to prepare a couple of projects which demonstrate your end-to-end design process and deliverables. You will go through this with our Design Director Or Principal Designer and another designer in the team where they will ask follow up questions, digging deeper into your process and work.
Final round (3 hours). This involves three interviews covering craft, impact and teamwork. These can be split over multiple days to make it easier for you. The portfolio submitted is used as a reference for these interviews to help set context for us, and save you time repeating yourself.

Our average process takes around 2-3 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on robertodonoghue@monzo.com
Whats in it for you:
90,000 - 105,000 base salary plus stock options
We can help you relocate to the UK
We can sponsor visas.
This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).
We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.
Learning budget of 1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
And much more, see our full list of benefits here
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Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and were making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, were embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report.
Were an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.
If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage

You've worked on products across different languages and cultures.
Youve led the design of world-class product launches in a fast-growing company before.
You understand that good design is not about trends but is built on top of principles and tradeoffs.
You make well-reasoned design decisions, always advocating for the best possible user experience.
Youre passionate about inclusive design and accessibility, and youll design with all our users in mind.
You care about the UI design details but are also comfortable zooming out, seeing the broader picture and connecting the dots to create a cohesive overall experience.
Youre familiar with native mobile design patterns on Android and iOS and have designed polished apps for both platforms
Youre passionate about sharing your knowledge, and raising the bar for design practice at Monzo. Previous experience mentoring designers is a big plus.
You understand that writing is designing, you're a confident writer, and the copy in your screens is never an afterthought.

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Were on a mission to make money work for everyone.
Were waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.
With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!
Were not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo
Hear from our team about what it's like working at Monzo

London | 90,000 - 105,000 + Benefits | Product Design at Monzo |
About our Design Team:
Were a team of about 65 Product Designers, User Researchers and Brand Designers working across the entire Monzo customer experience.
Our design team has written a number of blog posts which you can find here: https://monzo.com/blog/design/
What youll be working on:

We were founded to make money work for everyone! With that in mind, Monzo is expanding internationally! You will help design market-specific products that will shape the future of banking in these regions.
Core banking features for Monzo's iPhone and Android apps. Increasing visibility and control of money across multiple accounts: we want Monzo to be the financial hub of your life, and something this ambitious requires a lot of good design.